It took ’em a while, but GetUp! has finally realised that censorship exists in Australia and it can happen to anyone — including them! GetUp! booked and paid for their television advertisement ‘Silence Won’t Save Tibet‘ to be broadcast on Channel Seven before and after the Olympic’s opening ceremony. It didn’t. ‘The ad was pulled...

Have you watched The Gruen Transfer? It’s a great show on ABC where Will Anderson and a panel of advertising execs dismantle advertisements, compete to sell whale meat, and talk about controversial ads. A week or two back they looked at the Emma Thompson human trafficking video, tomorrow it’s the Kotex Beaver ad that had...

The Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Assessments and Advertising) Bill 2008 passed the Senate this week. Here’s a brief look at some of the changes: The Bill allows unclassified films and computer games to be advertised before they are classified, providing they meet set conditions and are assessed as part of a new...

Queensland Premier and suit connoisseur Anna Bligh has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Bureau over what she says are obscene slogans on camper vans operated by hire company Wicked. ‘I don’t think they’d be allowed on a billboard and therefore they shouldn’t be allowed on a van’ ‘These are often things that frankly...

Just thirteen complaints from newspaper readers who found a Ryanair ad offensive was enough for Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority to demand the budget airline cease using the ad. The ad features an adult dressed as a schoolgirl with the headline Hottest Back To School Fares. Offensive? C’mon, a trip to the mall and your likely...

Remember that Yellow Pages ad on tele lately where Crackers The Clown gets the living crap beaten out of him by a bunch of feral kids at a birthday party. Well, it’s causing the clown community a whole lot of anguish. So being clowns, they responded like only a clown would. They complained to the...